When the president uses the world’s stage to rage, lie, and gloat

When politics needs a villain, even Tylenol will do

In seven days Trump pressured the press, rewrote immigration, claimed control over prosecutors, erased history, and pushed the courts to their limits.

When the FCC silences comedians and networks shovel dirt for mergers, freedom of speech dies.

How violence could be used to rewrite the rules of power

When the press is the enemy, democracy is at risk

Chaos is not his weakness. It is his strategy, and it is slowly erasing the line between outrage and catastrophe.

When the president couldn’t care less, democracy pays the price.

Why some stories of political violence resist simple narratives

How Trump and the Supreme Court turned an obscure legal tool into a weapon of power.

Why the president’s warlike threats against Chicago signal a deeper authoritarian turn.

Trump’s long record of objectifying women collides with his broken vow on Epstein’s files.

Trump’s boat strike shows what happens when unchecked power sails free of accountability.

When the strings of power run through one man, the economy becomes his toy.

Every blow against unions is a blow against democracy.

Trump’s loyalty pageants and purges are not sideshows. They are the machinery of authoritarian rule.

Trump won’t rule forever. But his myth might.

How the NRA, politicians, and lobbyists turned America’s obsession with firearms into a deadly faith

A short history of the love affair between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un

Authoritarianism advances while the opposition hides behind press releases.

Trump’s flag-burning ban proves his loyalty is to control, not country.

Gerrymandering lets party bosses cut up the country like cake meaning power for them, scraps for us.

Ceci n’est pas un président.

Trump’s second presidency is the consequence of appeasement. The question now is whether accountability can still come before it’s too late.

A short history of soldiers policing citizens and the democracies that fell with them

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

Tom Morello has assembled a 65-song playlist called 'Fuck ICE' featuring the White Stripes, Bruce Springsteen, Public Enemy, and more.

For centuries the religious right has preached morality while writing laws that divide, exclude, and control

From Aristophanes to Newsom: The Long Tradition of Mocking Power

How history’s dictators turn narcissism into a weapon of power.

Vaccine Policy as Authoritarian Tool

How American Democracy Unravels and the Authoritarian Pattern is Revealed

In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.